Pajiba

Wow...so much for freedom on the internet. And yes, thank god for Google. Best of luck getting the site back up and I look forward to its return!

Oh...yeah..."thanks", Mr. President and all your merry men.

What a relief this isn't permanent!

Been a devoted reader for as long as I can remember, first time posting. I had no idea what could have gone wrong. I drop in on a daily basis just to read certain regular's comments. I am saddened as I am sure many are, but of course, will hang in there.

Thank Christ this isn't permanent. I missed out on a few key laughs yesterday! Hope you're back as soon as possible!

Yes, the Internet, the one truly democratic medium to emerge indeed.

I would die without you guys. Glad you're still here.

Agreed. This is good news (that you're back). Someone needs to rip apart Britney Spears on David Letterman and who better. Maybe Britney controls the internet. Maybe my brain is made of guacamole. If I listen to that crap, then yes, it's guacamole.

How strange... unless maybe Homeland Security are big Uwe Boll fans... hey, there's got to be *some* reason that man has a career...

I read you daily & will be avidly awaiting your return from this Orwellian fiasco. Good Luck!!

i think it's the bush administration!

Oh man, I thought you were joking at first. Sad to see I was wrong. Thanks for explaining everything (I FREAKED yesterday when I typed in pajiba and got nothing). I know the Pajiba staff will bounce back and give us the scathing, bitchy reviews that you just can't find anywhere else. :)

Just to add: The Wayback Machine @ the Internet Archive has a lot of your older pages stashed away... maybe a supplement to Google?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pajiba.com

For some reason I don't see anything after April 1st 2005 though...

Good Luck Dustin! What doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger!

Is that Clay Bertram or Clay Shaw?

I doubt DHS can even do proper digital forensics. If you're reading this, DHS, call a brother! I do training!

The Department of Homeland Security, hu?
You know, i always thought this is name sounds kind of fascistic.
I guess i weren't that wrong about that.

Homeland Security?!? For real?
Here's hoping the Bush administration crashes and burns sooner rather than later...and I thought I hated them before!
I will check your site daily to see how you're progressing. And after you've made a complete recovery, I will continue to check your site daily for snark. You've become a part of my life and I will never give you up. Never.

I have been visiting your site for a long time now, and this is my first comment. I cant even tell you Pajibans how often your reviews have made a shitty day better. Bad day at work? No problem-one review from Dustin, and im all smiles and cathatric chuckles. I just wanted to let you guys know that you have a loyal buch of pretentios, cynical, psuedo-intelectualls (me included) who need their daily fix, and no matter what, we'll keep comin back for more. Fuck The Man, Fix The Site, and Get Back to Business.
Viva Pajiba!

This wasn't DHS. That's what they want you to think. Think a bout it. You badmouth Scientology
and Tom Cruise and then this happens? Put two and two together, man!

They probably took it because of the review you did for Loose Change. Our fearless leader doesn't take too kindly to people who question his lack of intelligence. Can't imagine why.

Tom is dyslexic...

http://www.dyslexiamentor.com/famousdyslexics.php

if you stop reading Pajiba the terrorists/xenu/president bush/whoever you don't want to win... wins...

viva la pajiba revalution!!

I'm still not entirely sure whether or not your joking about the DHS. But if it was them, I think maybe President Bush got mad because Mike went off on Texas last week.

See what you did, Mike?! Why can't you just do like the slogan says and Don't Mess With Texas!

*snicker*

Damn, and I'm a new reader too. This has to be frustrating for you guys. I'm sorry this happened.

Thank God (well, whatever) you're back. Your reviews and reviewers are fabulous, the snark level is satisfying without being off-putting, and even most of the comments are well-written. It's like an alternate internet. I would have been very sad if you'd disappeared, especially so soon after I'd discovered you.

I feel really awful for you guys! As a fan, if there's anything I can do, let me know. I know that sounds lame, but if you discover an email address we can write to or a person to contact, I think a lot of us would like to say a few words... or a lot of words.

That's pretty lame that you guys got taken down. I have to think that your data was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, otherwise you would probably have a lot more up-close and personal knowledge of what's going on. A friend of mine ran afoul of the FBI once and the first he knew of it was the knock on his door at 4:30 AM.
As an enormous fan of individual freedom, I'm offended by unilateral action that affects the innocent more than I am by almost anything else. Sometimes in grade school I would get in trouble because the teacher couldn't sort out who was being good from who was being bad, and I would get so livid I could barely think straight.

So anyway I hope your data gets back to you, but I have to say that my friend's experience does not bode well.

Sorry guys.

I don't think I can survive without Pajiba! It was what got me through the torture of sitting through An American Haunting last night. I kept thinking, "Oh, God, there was too much stuff that Pajiba didn't write about in here! The snark! The snark! .. hm, I wonder what's going on at Pajiba." I knew there was a reason why my Pajiba-sense was going off!

Oh vegas, you are just delicious. I never thought I'd see a Handmaidens Tale refrence on a massage board, but happily I was oh so wrong.

Hold on Pajiba. If the fundamentalists are right about prayer, you should be up in no time

NEVER STOP

EVER

thanx

This is one of my favorite places "for hanging out" on the interwebs! Your whole staff needs to know there are loyal bitches out here.
I can't wait for the "Art School Confidential" review.
Hang in there and remember: bitterness is not the same as cynicism, so don't get eaten up by it.

You *claim* (via hearsay of course) that DHS shut your host down - but you are running DHS employment ads on this page.

Aww, what a good sport you are!

Sounds to me like somebody's just a little - too - needy for attention . . . .

I tried to find you guys about ten times yesterday with increasing anxiety. Never do that to me again. Maybe you should set up an emergency evac plan for us die-hard pajiba junkies, so we have a prearranged rendezvous site should The Man invade again.

Oh mercy!! you think DHS read your Ice Age 2 review and took offence ?...or that Revolution Studio guy you dissed several weeks ago took umbrage?Whatever welcome back guys.

Italian reader (yup, you've reached us too...) hopes for a speedy recovery. Bless you.

Sue.

TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 21A > SUBCHAPTER I > Part A > § 2000aa

It shall be unlawful for a government officer or employee, in connection with the investigation or prosecution of a criminal offense, to search for or seize any work product materials possessed by a person reasonably believed to have a purpose to disseminate to the public a newspaper, book, broadcast, or other similar form of public communication, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.

(The exception in this act for child pornography cases is close enough to litigate but Congress did not envision shared hosting websites when they crafted this exception. I think there is a strong arguement that the exception does not apply when the majority of the people using the printing press in question have nothing to do with the crime being investigated. The government CAN be more granular in their seizure and respect for this rule requires it.)

Whoa!! Welcome to the land of the free! Thank God for Google, indeed!! I need my dose of Pajiba to get thru a long, cold, wet weekend. Open a socket, set up a perimeter and get to work!!!! Long live Pajiba!!!

Thank God we have the DHS to protect us from scathing reviews!

And thank Pajiba you're back!

Not only are they censoring you guys, they're tracking all your phone convos about it too. Big Brother is watching YOU.

Well I for one feel SO much safer now....(*note sarcasm*) Good grief. And what do you want to bet that the reason they took the disks is complete crap?

Hey, maybe some college kid called Bush a 'gooberhead' and all kinds of bells went off... Hope you guys are back on your feet soon.

Yes, QuizLaw (which is hilarious, if you haven't been able to check it out) also went down. According to THEM, some guys actually showed up on their porch and took their computers. SUCKS.

%whois alexsrv36.com

Registration Service Provided By: 2mhost.com
Contact: sales@2mhost.com
Visit: http://www.2mhost.com

Domain name: alexsrv36.com

Administrative Contact:
2mhost.com
Mohamed Noman (sales@2mhost.com)
+20.122389828
Fax: +1.7078970584
19 Azziz Kohil st
Alexandria, EG 00000
EG

There's your man. Your data was being stored in Egypt dude. And that's why you got such a great deal. He probably just screwed up, and came up with an excuse straight out of the bazaar, hoping it would be too hard to confirm. Good luck suing him. But only $6.95/month!!!

I'm impressed--your archives look fully restored already!

Way to stick it to The Man--whoever he may be.

Wow... Glad to see the return of the ONLY movie reviews that actually influence my decision on whether or not to see a film. Like all of the above, if there's anything I or my friends can do we will be happy to help!

I don't have the time to read all of the comments or spout off some liberal "our freedoms are being destroyed" rant of my own (although I would really, really like to). Suffice it to say that I'll be patient while you guys get it back together, since I'm so happy to see you back fighting the good fight and providing scathing reviews for bitches like me!

This is seriously ridiculous. I wonder if you could take legal action against... wait, no, who am I kidding? ~_~

Anyway, good luck with retrieving everything... thank god for Google caches, indeed. I don't know what I would do without Pajiba.

Apologies for f*cking up the HTML tags.

Sweet Merciful Crap! See, this is what I get for taking a new job - I leave this site for two fuckin' days and all hell breaks loose. I'm truly sorry, Pajiba folks, and wish you the best for getting everything back up and running. And wish nothing but boils and biting worms on those who shut you down. Free internet my ass.

Occam's razor: take the simplest explanation. That would be that Mohamed made a boo-boo and invented a scary story.

I'll bet you DHS has nothing to do with this, but go ahead and confirm that it doesn't. (See, you'll never believe what DHS tells you, which is why that was chosen as the excuse!)

You're building your house on a conartist's facade. I suggest getting *all* your data together and in your own hands, and migrating to a new host, one where you can have legal recourse against them if they screw you like this. You get what you pay for.

Whew!!! It was nearly a week without my pajiba fix...that ain't funny. Glad to see you're back even if you're a little gimpy...doesn't look too worse for wear. On the bright side, this has gotta be great for the publicity! Whether you want it may be a different matter...Love you guys!! Now pass the pajiba to the left hand side...PEACE!

The fuckin' evil Bush dictatorship strikes again!

http://getkickedoffaplanewearingthis.blogspot.com/

Why go with some crappy egyptian company? Go with an American company for goodness sake. Jeez, don't be a fool just to save a few pennies!

That's fucking bullshit. God, the government, though helpful at times, can be real damn annoying.

Yes, I said the helpful part because they're watching me. But I guess they are, to an extent. They keep me from having to have my own mind or anything.

Gack, Bush. He and his entire administration are a bunch of dumb twits. And that's the NICEST possible thing I could think of to say about them.

See, I appreciate that Maryscott was willing to take the bullet for me on occassion, but we have the classic parenting impasse. Age, gender, and temperament of child/ren all affect the total enjoyment of the entire family at a movie. I'm just happy that I didn't have to shell out money for Ice Age 2. And that's why Pajiba is a daily stop at our house.

I can't help but notice the irony that a group of people who would rightfully accuse others of ignorant knee-jerk reactionism are still congratulating themselves on being so subversive that George Bush personally ordered their thoughts removed from the internet when halfway through the page Dustin had already given you the reasonable explanation: the Pajiba data was on the wrong drive at the wrong time and was not the target.

There are lots of intelligent and reasonable people on here who I disagree with, and believe me when I say that this is not directed at you. Maybe my language is too strong, but to me the people reacting this way are the kind of people who divide our country from both sides. The ignorant elite and the ignorant hicks, each only interested in sounding cool in front of their friends, and in the process making their side less palatable and driving the intelligent people who are really interested in the health of this country further apart.
Or maybe it's just people yakking on an internet thread.
And just to make it clear, I love you guys and I love the intelligent commenters who make me think.

Eep, you drank the kool ade, didn't yah buddy?!

Norma-

I was in a pissy mood, but I stand by the point if not the tone. I wasn't saying that George Bush is a good guy or that I like what's happening to individual freedoms in this country, just noting that it's interesting how some people who fancy themselves intellectual and open-minded can ignorantly hop on bandwagons with just as much gusto as stupid people who don't know the truth and don't care.

BUT READ THIS PART CAREFULLY

I would bet that a lot of people on this site were just being funny when they implied or stated that the drives were taken as a result of what's on this site, and I'm not talking to or about them. I'm just talking to the people who see a group of intelligent people with a viewpoint and blindly ape that viewpoint in the hopes that doing so will make them smarter, or at least seem so.

Listen, you can complain now. But what if the terrorists attacked tomorrow and DHS HADN'T confiscated the disc that stored your sites data? You'd probably be wondering why the system failed, again.

We can't forget the lessons we learned less than five years ago, Pajiba. You of all websites should know this.

So, Johnny, are the terrorists going to attack us using . . . kiddie porn? Remember, this is the reason floated for why the disks were seized, or at least this is the speculation of the hosting service that was passed onto its clients. (There's a pun in there; get it?) The hosting service 2mHost claimed that DHS seized the disks because it suspected child pornography resided on them.

However, the web version of "telephone" has garbled the message to the point that posters are decrying DHS for shutting down Pajiba. Pajiba responded by saying that it was really a victim of collateral damage as its data also resided on those disks and was probably not the target of the raid. (Another pun depending on the server architecture.) However, I might mention that Pajiba didn't clarify this until I brought up the point in a previous post.

Now, is the child-porn story a cover, either by DHS or by 2mHost? It's possible, although if true from DHS's end, I chuckle again at the irony of DHS investigating child porn when one of its employees was arrested for the same a few short weeks ago. (On the other hand, who better?)

Oh, and anon tipster, you'd better do a little more research on "Occam's Razor." The common oversimplification is that "the simplest explanation" is the preferred explanation. Occam's Razor only proposes simplicity as a deciding factor among competing theories. But those theories need some facts to go with them (otherwise, they're only hypotheses), and there are not many in this case so far (at least that we are aware of). Your "explanation" rests on two assumptions: One, that Our Man in Alexandria, Mohamed, made a boo-boo and, two, he's covering it up. Where is the evidence?

Hey Ireland. Glad you like the president, sorry to say that most of us don't like him, either. Generally us Americans are somewhat hardheaded, we still like our entertainment. However, you seem to pinpoint us with your comment by talking about Bush and Iraq. I would have to say that Americans are not the only ones visiting this site, as you yourself have placed your little fingerprint here. Besides this, I have alot of respect for your comment and for England itself ... well, maybe I should say Ireland. Maybe not.

When that sort of confiscation becomes so commonplace, so familiar, and so banal that people stop being outraged; that's when living in America will become truly frightening. Don't stop bitching and complaining!

I'm sure somewhere in the disk drive there were a terrorist plan to take out the Prez...this just pisses me off...1984 is coming, Big Brother is watching you and will make any excuses to take it ALL away!

Noi ti forniamo una facile e versatile visione d'insieme del tuo portafoglio - questo rende piú facile seguire il tuo rendimento.

I've just been letting everything pass me by lately. Maybe tomorrow. Today was a complete loss, but that's how it is. Eh. Oh well.